Quotes About Movies

What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn't want to do, having to make movies you didn't like.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

I think Dustin Hoffman has been in at least three of my favorite movies of all time with things like 'Tootsie,' 'Marathon Man.' Getting a bit more arthouse and darker, 'The Graduate' - incredible, barrier-breaking movie, 'The Graduate.'

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.